Native valve Escherichia coli endocarditis following urosepsis

D Rangarajan; S Ramakrishnan; KC Patro; S Devaraj; V Krishnamurthy; Y Kothari; N Satyaki

doi:10.4103/0971-4065.111866

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CASE REPORT

Year : 2013 | Volume : 23 | Issue : 3 | Page : 232-234

Native valve Escherichia coli endocarditis following urosepsis

D Rangarajan¹, S Ramakrishnan¹, KC Patro¹, S Devaraj¹, V Krishnamurthy², Y Kothari³, N Satyaki⁴
¹ Department of Nephrology, NU Trust, Bangalore, India
² Department of Urology, NU Trust, Bangalore, India
³ Department of Cardiology, Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore, India
⁴ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore, India

Correspondence Address:
S Ramakrishnan
C.A. 6, 11th Cross, 15th Main, Padmanabha Nagar, Bangalore - 560 070
India

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DOI: 10.4103/0971-4065.111866

Gram-negative organisms are a rare cause of infective endocarditis. Escherichia coli, the most common cause of urinary tract infection and gram-negative septicemia involves endocardium rarely. In this case report, we describe infection of native mitral valve by E. coli following septicemia of urinary tract origin in a diabetic male; subsequently, he required prosthetic tissue valve replacement indicated by persistent sepsis and congestive cardiac failure.

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